Cecilia Jonsson (b. 1980, SE/NO) is a visual artist, whose research-based projects range from installation and sculpture to sound, image and kinetic works. Jonsson
explores the connections between organisms and inorganic chemistry as both a method of observation and a medium. Her work is informed by scientific methods and
often consists of site-specific, artistic interpretations of phenomena and processes of nature. The projects are developed as investigations of physical and ideological
properties of the raw materials that form the basis of human existence, from origins deep down in the earth, to the extraction, transformation and global exploitation.

Jonsson is interested in how matter and material things can participate in, influence and mobilize a variety of social processes as well as the elasticity of both materiality
and agency when they take different expression in different disciplinary traditions. By coordinating objective research methods with personal subjective experience, her
work fuses biology and history with a materiality that intersects arts, sciences, aesthetics, technology and social culture in a contemporary alchemy.

Jonsson's research builds on perspectives of environmental politics and the material turn. An interdisciplinary and collaborative practise founded within two separate,
while thematically related, lines of work, iron and water. Subjecting themes of interfering cycles of matter, fluids, life and meaning.

With her art, Jonsson aims to raise questions about the changing environment and the different ways in which visual expressions can be said to be active and affect
social progress and not only reflect ideology or society.